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To: TimF who wrote (128025)	4/1/2004 9:30:39 AM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<If bin Laden was going to a mosque in New Jersey every week then we could probably arrest him. If on other hand he was in an area not under our control and was surrounded by radical followers I wouldn't object to putting a hellfire in to his car or dropping a 500lb smart bomb on his house.> We have the military capability to turn Afghanistan into a parking lot with intercontinental missiles -- but we don't do that. We risk lives to do it as well as we can, knowing that there will be a cost in human life. Israel can and should arrest people it suspects of terrorist crimes. But justifying the use of extreme measures on the basis of convenience is no more logical than proposing to flatten geographic areas. You cannot fire a missile into a crowded street without killing innocent bystanders -- this form of action costs innocent lives. But even if you could make a case that it is a question of which method would cost fewer innocent lives, the fact remains that to kill somebody who is available for capture is murder. In terms of effectiveness, turning this man into a martyr does nothing to improve Israeli security.